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Excessive Speed

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket topped by a Dragon spacecraft launches from Cape Canaveral on the eighth mission to resupply the International Space Station. The mission was conducted under NASA’s commercial cargo contract.

It Is Rocket Science

Flames lick the bottom of the RS-68A engines on the Delta IV Heavy rocket during its ascent at Cape Canaveral. Shortly after liftoff, the center engine throttles back to just 55% of its full power, conserving fuel for use after its side boosters are spent and jettisoned. A different exhaust plume from the center engine illustrates the reduced thrust.

Cell Tower in the Sky

United Launch Alliance delivers the fifth and final satellite of the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) constellation to orbit on June 24, 2016. The launch took place from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Vostochny First Launch

Photographer Backstage at Baikonur Cosmodrome Launch

On March 19, 2016, A Soyuz FG rocket with the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station Expedition 47/48 crewmembers—NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexei Ovchinin—blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.